Encounter Studio: experiments + journeys

brief notes on experimental photographic journeys

roadside vegetation

This picture was made one afternoon along Halls Creek Rd in Waitpinga on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. Halls Creek Rd is part of the Heysen Trail,  and  I often walk along there on a  late afternoon poodlewalk in the winter time. It's fenced on both sides of the road, it is protected from the southwesterly winds , and the western sunshine gently lights up the vegetation.

It's a pleasant walk in the late afternoon and  I've made a number of photos/studies  of the roadside  vegetation along this section of the Heysen Trail.  This was one of the first: 

On this occasion I exposed  some old Portra NC 160 ASA film that had been sitting in  the 6x7  film back of the Linhof Tehnika 70 for 5 years or more.  I thought that I'd better finish the roll  of film and  have it developed as I had nothing to lose.  Though the negatives were a bit flat and the colours  were washed out  the  digital  files were okay when  I scanned the film. Some  of the pictures looked a  bit odd,  but I didn't mind. 

I wanted to start using the baby Linhof again as the  two  film backs  that go with it ----a 6x7 and a 6x9--- were useful for tree /bush studies that I was starting to do for the Fleurieuscapes project. After exposing the roll of film,  and using the camera in the Kuitpo Forest,   I went ahead and bought a  more modern Linhof (Super Rollex) 6x9 film back.